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 | George F. Smith - Barbarous Relic |
Thomas Paine, Liberty's Hated Torchbearer  |
| When Thomas Paine's ship pulled into Baltimore harbor on October 30, 1802, a large gathering of friends and admirers were waiting at dockside to welcome him back. Others stood by as well, some filled with loathing, merely to observe a famous figure.Saturday, February 13, 2021 |
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 | Antal E. Fekete - Gold University |
That Accursed Propensity To Save  |
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| Benjamin Constant |
| On the Liberty of the Ancients Compared with that of the Moderns |
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He loved liberty as other men love power," was the judgment passed on Benjamin Constant by a 19th-century admirer.
His great public concern, all throughout his adult life, was the attainment of a free society, especially for his adopted country, France; and if a (by no means uncritical) French commentator exagSaturday, November 28, 2020 |
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| Hyperinflation - USA Gold |
 The Nightmare German Inflation |
| Hey, Mr. Chairman, in case you haven't noticed, the Federal Reserve already has a goodly supply of oxen!
My father was fond of relating a story about a professor lecturing on geography. A short fellow, he was extolling the agriculture of Switzerland. "In our country oxen are not even as tall as I am. In some countries you see oxen just as tall as myself. But, believe it or not, on the fat pastures of Switzerland there are even greater oxen than myself". For emphasis the good professor stood on his tiptoes and stretched his hand upwards above his head. "We don't believe so!" - shouted someone from the back benches of the lecture theater.Monday, July 13, 2020 |
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 | Charleston Voice |
| Historical Sketch of Paper Currency OF PAPER CURRENCY - History is repeating now |
| INVENTION OF PAPER MONEY- FRENCH EXPERIENCE - JOHN LAW ENGLISH EXPERIMENTS –
COLONIAL -RUSSIAN - CONFEDERATE STATESTuesday, April 28, 2020 |
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| Charleston Voice |
| Historical Sketch of Paper Currency |
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IN the latter months of the year 1863, only two years after the beginning of the great struggle which has lately terminated, and long before there was any doubt, in the Southern Confederacy, of its final success, its paper currency had depreciated to an extent which made it almost valueless. This was looked upon as the natural and inevitable consequence of its excessive redundancy, but that redundancy was not the only reason of its depreciation, because it would have depreciated without it, although to a much less degree. We believe it may be laid down as an almost settled axiom, without much fear of any successful refutation, that depreciation is of the very essence of paper money, whether it exceeds or not the wants of the community where it is current-that its over-issue only accelerates, orSunday, April 5, 2020 |
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| The Disastrous History of Money - USA Gold |
| The Nightmare German Inflation |
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 | Hugo Salinas Price - Plata.com |
| Some Reflexions on History and Economics |
| Nicolas Oresme, a Catholic bishop (1320-1382), studied human behavior with regard to money, which in his time consisted of gold and silver coinage; he was perhaps the first to observe that humans attribute varying valuations to the money that comes into their hands. He stated that holders of gold and silver coins prefer to tender their most deteriorated coins in payments, and retain the most bright, shiny and perfect of their coins. Thus, he was the true originator of what has come to be known aMonday, January 22, 2018 |
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 | Egon von Greyerz - Matterhorn AM |
| 11,000 KG GOLD FOR A PAINTING – WILL COST 110 KG IN 2025 |
| What is absolutely certain is that global wealth will be totally decimated in the next 4-8 years. It doesn’t matter if you are very rich or “just own a house” with some equity left. Most of it will come down in value by 75-95% in the next few years as the debt and asset bubbles implode.
But what very few people realise or plan for, is the confiscation of wealth that will take place in coming years. There will be confiscation on many levels.
With times deteriorating, governments will be thrown ouThursday, November 23, 2017 |
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| Sprott Money |
| The Triumph of Collectivism - Jeff Thomas |
| The French Revolution began in 1789. Maximilien Robespierre was one
of its most eager proponents. An extreme left-winger, he sought a
totalitarian rule that claimed to be “for the people” (echoing the
recently successful American revolution), but in reality was “for the
rulers.” He in turn inspired Karl Marx, author of
The Communist Manifesto.
Both Robespierre and Marx had been well-born and well-educated, but
rather spoiled and, as young adults, found that they had no particular
talentThursday, November 9, 2017 |
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| Egon von Greyerz - Matterhorn AM |
| WAKE UP AMERICA – THE DOLLAR IS GOING TO ZERO |
| For news to be read and understood by a great number of people, it must be simple, sensational and forgettable. Most individuals are not interested in “heavy” news or complicated issues. Just compare television and newspapers today to say 50 years ago. At that time, newspapers had very few pictures but instead covered serious matters with in depth analysis. Same with television. In the 1960s there was serious news and many programmes which raised important issues in society or politics, which maMonday, October 2, 2017 |
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 | Nathan Lewis - New World Economics |
| Much Ado About Nothing |
| We’ve been talking about The Midas Paradox (2015), by Scott Sumner.
July 23, 2017: The Midas Paradox (2015), by Scott Sumner
July 31, 2017: The Midas Paradox #2: Blame Gold
August 3, 2017: The Midas Paradox #3: It’s So Because I Say It Is
Today, I promised that we would take a look at some of these “supply and demand for gold” factors that Sumner talks about. Supply is pretty stable during this time, either in terms of mining or aboveground gold, so it is really about demand.
I’ve talked about tSaturday, August 5, 2017 |
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 | James Howard Kunstler |
| Meow |
| For all his blunders and stumbles in his first half-year as President (cough cough), Donald Trump seems to have more lives than Schrödinger’s Cat. Or maybe it just seems that way. Or maybe he isn’t really there at all (like the news these days). Maybe Trump only represents one comic probability in an infinite number of universes of probability, both comic and tragic. I begin to understand why the folks in Hollywood are having a whack attack over the chief executive: you can’t storyboard this bitFriday, July 21, 2017 |
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| Hugo Salinas Price - Plata.com |
| The Gnostic Plague |
| Eric Voegelin published a book titled "The New Science of Politics", in 1952.
I present here some of the ideas of Voegelin, so far as I have understood them. (His is a difficult book to read). Unfortunately, Voegelin is no longer with us to correct errors in which I may have incurred. In what follows, I express what I have gathered from reading Voegelin.
The general belief which prevailed among the populations of Europe, after Constantine declared that Christianity was the official religion ofWednesday, June 14, 2017 |
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 | Mark O'Byrne - gold.ie |
| LePen Euro Frexit Panic Over – “For Now” |
| by John Stepek, Editor of Money Week
OK, drama’s over.
The French election has turned out pretty much exactly as expected.
For all that some of the papers are leading with “French revolution” headlines, the reality is that a face-off between the right-wing Marine Le Pen of the Front National and independent/socialist candidate Emmanuel Macron of En Marche! has been on the cards for months now.
LePen and Gold bars (Metalor 100g). Concerns about Frexit and the end of the euro has seen strong demaTuesday, April 25, 2017 |
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| Mark O'Byrne - gold.ie |
| David McWilliams – Print Punts As French Election Could See Euro Break Up |
| David McWilliams, economist, writer and journalist, has warned that the coming French election may lead to the euro breaking up and that Ireland should have a ‘plan B’ and ‘print punts’ in order to be ready for the collapse of the “single currency.”
David McWilliams at Ireland’s Banking Inquiry
McWilliams writes
This time last year, only a few of us were suggesting that Brexit was likely. The mainstream view was that it couldn’t possibly happen. But it did. And so too did Trump. When this columMonday, February 13, 2017 |
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 | Mish - Global Economic Analysis |
| Wikileaks Claims Information on French Presidential Candidate Emmanuel Macron: Support for Fillon Plunges |
| Wikileaks’s founder Julian Assange claims he will “throw oil on the fire of the presidential campaign in France“.
The claim in in reference to Emmanuel Macron, a leading French presidential candidate, and head of the En Marche! political party.
The information is from Clinton Emails.
Via Mish-modified translation from RT in French: WikiLeaks Found Information on Macron in Emails of Clinton.
The founder of the site WikiLeaks Julian Assange told the Russian newspaper Izvestia that emails of HillaThursday, February 9, 2017 |
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 | Nelson Hultberg - AFR.org |
Freedom’s Leftist Enemies  |
| One of the tragic ironies of history is that the very moment freedom was given birth in America in 1787 with enactment of our Constitution in the wake of the Declaration of Independence, the concept of freedom itself came under direct assault from the philosophical thinkers of Europe, which laid the groundwork for the massive statisms of the modern day. This is because ideology moves history. Mankind’s societies are shaped by the prevailing ideas that have gained prominence among the great mindsSunday, January 15, 2017 |
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 | John Butler - Goldmoney |
| Top Ten Reasons why fiat currency is superior to gold (or silver) money |
| Top Ten Reasons why fiat currency is superior to gold (or silver) moneyIntroductionIn the spirit of the holidays and hope for a more prosperous 2017 I thought Insight readers might appreciate a little holiday humor. So please don’t take this edition too seriously. But if you happen to stumble across a ‘paperbug’ or two over the holidays, perhaps you could share some of the points made here as it will help them to realize just how hopelessly misguided they are. Cheers!View the entire Research PieMonday, December 26, 2016 |
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| Graham Summer - Gains Pains & Capital |
| Venezuela Enters the Record Book, Officially Hyperinflates |
| Authored by Steve H. Hanke of the Johns Hopkins University. Follow him on Twitter @Steve_Hanke.
Venezuela’s inflation has officially become the 57th official, verified episode of hyperinflation and been added to the Hanke-Krus World Hyperinflation Table, which is printed in the authoritative Routledge Handbook of Major Events in Economic History (2013). An episode of hyperinflation occurs when the monthly inflation rate exceeds 50 percent for 30 consecutive days. Venezuela's monthly inflation raMonday, December 12, 2016 |
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